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The new Potato Creek water pollution control plant on County Line road,
west of Orchard Hill, is expected to begin operations in mid-December,
according to Water Supt. Harry Simmons. The 82.4-million facility will treat
waste water from the southern portion of Griffin and has a two-million gallon
per day capacity. It was funded with a 55 percent federal grant and the
Baptist Convention
raps liberal Mercer
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) —
The Georgia Baptist Convention
(GBC), chastising Mercer Uni
versity for being what the GBC
considers too liberal, has
approved a report recommend
ing the school’s trustees put
greater emphasis on basic
Christian principles.
Mercer, located at Macon, is
Georgia’s oldest Baptist institu
tion. For years, it has been at
odds with some Baptists who
believe the school has strayed
from Christian teachings.
The report, prepared by a
special study committee, was
overwhelmingly approved by
some 1,500 delegates.
It asked Mercer trustees to
strengthen the “Christian at-
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mosphere,” place more empha
sis on the Christian education
program, improve communica
tions between the university
and its Baptist constitutency,
recruit more ministerial stu
dents and strengthen the
Baptist Student Union program.
The GBC gave Mercer one
year to study the recommenda
tions and report back to the
convention.
Among the few delegates who
voted against the report was
Malone Cochran of Jonesboro,
who argued that the GBC
should take stronger action
than merely making recom
mendations.
Cochran accused the school of
showing pornographic movies
on campus and allowing stu
dents to drink and instructors
to use “four-letter words”. “Its
time we not request but tell
something,” he demanded.
Rev. Jesse Wood of Rockhill
Baptist Church in Houston
County also voted against the
report. He proposed the conven
tion freeze all funds to Mercer
from 1977 until the trustees
submit a satisfactory report on
the university atmosphere.
Wood’s proposal was rejec
ted.
The study committee as set
up two years ago to study the
possibility of disolving legal
and financial ties between
Mercer and the GBC. It was
chaired by the Rev. Edwin L.
remaining 45 percent through local monies voted on in a bond issue. The
facility covers 40 acres. Simmons said the old Ison Branch plant, presently
in use, will be phased out since it is overloaded and does not meet EPA
standards. Its capacity is 1.3 million gallons per day.
Cliburn of Thomaston.
The committee report said
some churches have refused to
give money to the convention
because they found the policies
and practices of Mercer offen
sive.
Mercer has been at odds with
the GBC, an organization
representing some one million
Southern Baptists in 3,000 local
churches, over such issues as
acceptance of federal aid,
liberal philosophies of some
faculty members, and the
automony of its board of
trustees.
Mercer is the only Baptist
college that controls the elec
tion of its trustees. Trustees for
the other five Baptist colleges
— Shorter College at Rome,
Tift College in Forsyth, Truett-
McConnell College at Cleve
land, Mercer University in
Atlanta, and Brewton-Parker
College at Mount Vernon — are
selected by a nominating
committee of the covention.
The report asks the Mercer
trustees to consider making
their method of selection
conform to the other Baptist
schools.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70,
low today 68, high yesterday 73,
low yesterday 63, high
tomorrow near 60, low tonight in
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Two counties win
back Brasstown road
HIAWASSEE, Ga. (UPI) -
Citizens of two north Georgia
counties have regained control
of an access road to Brasstown
Bald, the state’s highest moun
tain, but they’re still grumbling
that government rangers used
high handed tactics in a dispute
over the road.
While the mountain residents
are miffed, the rangers think
the dispute was just one big
misunderstanding.
The Forest Service maintains
the Chattahoochee National
Forest where the mountain, a
major tourist attraction, is
located. And it seems nobody
told the Forest Service it didn’t
own the dirt road leading to the
mountain.
“It’s a little hard for the
people of this county and
northeast Georgia to under
stand their (rangers’) thin
king,” state Rep. Ralph
Twiggs, D-Hiawassee, said
Tuesday. “I have had quite a
few complaints.”
The controversy began last
summer when the Forest
Service dug a four-foot-deep
trench across a seven-mile dirt
road that goes from Young
Harris to a parking lot near the
top of the mountain, thus
preventing vehicles from using
the road. A Forest Service
spokesman said the road had
fallen into disrepair and was
unsafe for traffic.
The road, although it runs
through Forest Service proper
ty, used to be part of the state
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, November 12,1975
highway system and was given
to Union and Towns counties in
1967. Nobody notified the Forest
Service, however, and it as
sumed it controlled the road.
“At the time (the road was
closed) it didn’t appear to be
that important,” ranger Jack
McCormick said. “The (county)
ordinary didn’t realize it was a
county road, and the Forest
Service didn’t realize it ei
ther... When the thing came to a
head we began to get com
plaints.”
A paved road continues up
the mountain from the parking
lot to an observation tower on
top of the mountain, known
locally as the “loop.” Although
the counties claim they own the
road, the Forest Service con
trols it and receives 4 per cent
of the revenue from a private
bus line that takes some 45,000
to 60,000 visitors each year
from the parking lot to the
mountain top at $1 per person.
At a meeting last month, the
Forest Service turned control of
the lower road back over to the
counties. Towns County Ordi
nary C. B. Corn assumed
responsibility for filling up the
ditch, and he said Tuesday it
would “get to it in a few days if
the weather holds up.”
At the same meeting, the
ordinaries and Forest Service
representatives postponed con
sideration on who controls
access of the “loop” to the
mountain top.
Griffin’s flying chaplain
He’s a minister who wears many different hats
Griffin native Jimmy Cham
bers wears many hats.
Most of them have to do with
flying or serving the Lord.
Some of his hats:
He’s chaplain for the city of
Griffin.
He’s chaplain for the Georgia
Wing of Civil Air Patrol.
He’s pastor of the Dewey
Rose Baptist Church in Elbert
County, about seven miles from
Elberton.
He’s a pilot.
And he likes to hunt and fish,
collect old coins and old bottles
when he can find the time.
His primary duty as chaplain
for the City at Griffin is that of
opening regular meetings of the
board with prayer.
The board meets on the
second and fourth Tuesday
nights every month. Sometimes
i Chambers flies to Griffin for the
meeting and sometimes he
drives. But he has to make a
special effort to get here.
Most of the time when he
comes here, he can work in a
Panel rejects
Blackburn 8-5
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate Banking Committee
today rejected the nomination
of Ben Blackburn, who had
been criticized for his “insen
sitivity” to minority groups, as
chairman of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board.
The former, four-term con
gressman from Georgia was
criticized for his voting record
on civil rights legislation while
in the House and for his
attitude toward minorities and
poor people.
The vote against Blackburn
was 8-5. Two Republicans
joined six Democrats in voting
not to report the nomination to
the Senate for consideration.
Blackburn, 48, became the
second presidential nominee to
be turned down in as many
weeks. The Senate Commerce
Committee last week tabled the
nomination of Joseph Coors to
the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
Voting in favor of the
Blackburn nomination were
Sens. John Tower, R-Tex., John
Sparkman, D-Ala., Jake Garn,
R-Utah, Robert Morgan, D-
N.C., and Jesse Helms, R-N.C.
Voting against were Demo
crats William Proxmire of
Wisconsin, Harrison Williams of
New Jersey, Thomas Mclntyre
of New Hampshire, Adlai
Stevenson of Illinois, Alan
Cranston of California and
Joseph Biden of Delaware.
Republicans Edward Brooke of
Massachusetts and Robert
Packwood of Oregon also voted
no.
Proxmire, as the Banking
Committee chairman, cited
Blackburn’s “consistent opposi
tion and hostility to open
housing” and his attitude
toward the availability of public
housing to low income and
black citizens.
Brooke, the only black in the
Senate, said it was very
difficult as a member of the
President’s party to oppose the
nominee, but “his record is one
of insensitivity to the needs,
aspirations, privileges and
more important, the rights of
minorities of this country.”
Helms accused the committee
of turning down “a decent,
qualified nominee, purely be
cause of his (conservative)
philosophy,” while Sparkman
said Blackburn should not be
rejected merely because of his
vote against civil rights while
in the House.”
visit with his grandchildren who
live in Milner.
Mrs. Ronnie Johnson, his
daughter, and her husband
make their home in Milner.
They have two children and
grandfather Chambers likes to
drop in and spoil them a little.
Chambers has a son, E. Timo
thy Chambers, who is a junior
at Georgia Southern College at
Statesboro.
The Griffin chaplain is
married to the former Anne
Kelley.
As a lieutenant colonel in the
Georgia Wing of CAP, he is
responsible for chaplains in
every unit in Georgia, including
the one in Griffin.
Chambers logs hundreds upon
hundreds of flying hours every
year taking care of his duties as
CAP chaplain.
The CAP is a volunteer
civilian auxiliary of the U. S.
Air Force. Members handle
search and rescue missions all
over the state. Sometimes they
participate in Civilian Defense
Rare heart
infant
survives
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - Christopher
Wall Jr. doesn’t know it yet, but he has
made medical history.
Os 64 cases recorded in the past 300
years, Christopher is the first infant to
have lived more than two days with
ectopia cordis — his heart developed
outside his chest.
Christopher was three months old
Monday. His heart, which at birth sat on
top of his chest fully exposed, has been
covered with skin and gradually is
receding into his chest.
Dr. Naresh C.V. Saxena, head of an
eight-member surgical team at Children’s
Hospital, says Christopher’s chances for
survival are “pretty good.”
Publicity surrounding the infant’s rare
condition resulted in several job
interviews for his father, Christopher Wall
Sr., 23, who was unemployed at the time.
Wall, of Berlin, N.J., is now an
investigator for the Camden, N.J. district
attorney’s office.
Christopher’s 20-year-old mother,
Teresa, gave birth Aug. 10 at Garden State
Community Hospital in Marlton, N.J.
Doctors kept the infant alive by placing a
salt and water solution on his heart to keep
it moist.
When Christopher arrived at Children’s
Hospital, Saxena, unfamiliar with such a
rare case, went to the hospital library in
the hope of finding some guidance in
performing the operation. The library was
closed.
The infant had only a short time to live,
so the doctors went ahead with the
surgery. Four times they tried to cover the
heart with skin, but were unsuccessful.
“On the fifth go around,” Saxena said.
“We grabbed the skin and wrapped it
around.
“We opened up the pleural cavities on
both sides to see if we could place the heart
in one or the other. But there was no
room,” Saxena said, explaining
Christopher’s lungs had inflated to take up
the room left by heart.
Christopher has been on a respirator
since the operation. Saxena said his “heart
is stuck to the skin and he is unable to
breathe on his own for more than a couple
of days.
“The heart is less prominent now than
on the first day of the operation,” he said.
“As he grows there will be more space for
the heart to go in. He’s doing much better
these days.”
work.
Often time Lt. Col. Chambers
is called on to make a personal
call on a CAP family where
there is illness or death. This
duty takes him all over the
state. He usually flies on such
missions.
At other times, his superiors
call him in to handle some
counseling work.
Sometimes a fellow is out of
sorts and all he needs is a little
talk to get him back on track,
Chambers explained.
That’s where the Griffinite’s
training and experience in the
ministry comes into play.
Chambers can call upon his
military background as well as
ministerial training to motivate
someone in CAP related work
and solve a rough or tricky
human problem.
Chambers attended Griffin
High School, Mercer University
at Macon and Luther Rice
Seminary, Jacksonville, Fla.
He served pastorates at Wild
wood, a church he organized
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and built, Friendship and
Rebhoboth, all in the Flint
River Baptist Association.
Since he has a church in
Elbert County, he is active in
that county’s ministerial
association now.
His military experience in
cludes that of being a combat
infantryman in World War 11.
He was awarded the Purple
Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster,
the Combat Infantryman’s
Badge, bronze star and other
service ribbons.
Chambers is a member of the
National Military Chaplains
Association and Southern
Baptist Chaplaincy. His com
mission was under the auspices
of the Home Mission Board,
Southern Baptist Convention
and the United States Air Force,
National Chaplains Division of
USAF-CAP, Maxwell AFB, Ala
bama.
Working with cadet programs
which are part of some CAP
units is another job Chambers
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